This Pretty Much Explains What Went Wrong

If you want a clear example of a big part of the reason we’ve become a nation full of fat diabetics, take a look at this video from the Wall Street Journal.

“The agency plans to update its definition of healthy for the first time in two decades.”

Yup. So for at least two decades — and know it’s closer to four decades now — perfectly good foods like avocados and almonds have been labeled “unhealthy” while complete-garbage foods made from sugar and grains have been blessed with the “healthy” label because they’re low in fat.

In fact, of the agency’s five criteria — fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium (“unhealthy”) and beneficial nutrients (“healthy”) — they were dead wrong on four of them.

This video is a year old, but I haven’t heard anything about the FDA changing its definitions yet. In fact, I just visited the FDA site out of curiosity and found this gem:

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. today. You can use the Nutrition Facts Label to compare foods and decide which ones fit with a diet that may help reduce the risk of heart disease. Choose foods that have fewer calories per serving and a lower %DV of these “nutrients to get less of”

Total Fat
Saturated Fat
Cholesterol
Sodium

Sugar still isn’t on the list. Processed grains aren’t on the list. Industrial oils aren’t on the list.

Fewer and fewer people don’t believe in the government’s advice but our children’s lunches have to follow those guidelines. There are some extreme cases where the child’s lunch from home is vilified and not allowed.

I was wondering: how do you boost your metabolic rate after it’s already been damaged? Do you just eat the right foods and it’ll rebound naturally, or is there something else you have to do in order to manage that?

I’m not sure if anyone has done the definitive study on how much a metabolism can be repaired. But certainly eating the right foods is the way to start. Boosting the percentage of protein in your overall diet will also raise your metabolism a bit.

I think it’s a combination of factors. Genetics is of course a big one. His mother was obese and regained 100 pounds after bariatric surgery. His older brother was obese and died of heart disease at age 42.

Jimmy also used to drink a dozen Cokes per day. If that won’t screw up your metabolism, I don’t know what will.

I am not an expert, far from. But I do sometimes wonder if we are still in a phase of knowledge gathering were we are still primarily figuring out what we don’t know. And filling in the new gaps as quickly as possible.

From reading Dr. Cates updated book, Deep Nutrition, it would makes sense that a person who has obese parents, and grand parents already has a food in the epigenetic problem pool. Add in other epigenetic damage from years of bad diet, and you it is possible you wind up with a fairly deep pool of epigenetic problems.

It is my hope that with years of great nutrition, that from our (this collective community) knowledge it would appear he is doing, he his body will see mini-reboots along his journey.

Dr. Nally has said a few times that in his clinic he has seen patients plateau for periods up to years, and then all of a sudden start to lose weight and extra skin.

That is all semi-educated guesswork on my part.

All I do know is I have to send out a huge thank you to Jimmy, and all of the other people who have stuck their head up to yell to the masses there are problems in the medical world, and likely much better ways to take care of yourself than the powers at be suggest. And with that we circle back to the point of the post.

At to that point, it will be interesting to see how much of a fight we see in the next few years from these billion dollar companies.

I’m hoping that we’ll eventually see the obesity rate reverse itself, but it just continues to climb. The only ray of hope is that it’s leveling off in some states. I’ve been reading the reviews of “The Big Fat Surprise” and “Good Calories, Bad Calories”…. damn, these people are furious.

I think fasting deserves a look. “The Complete Guide to Fasting” that Jimmy Moore co-wrote with Jason Fung (who also wrote “The Obesity Code”) makes a good case for fasting being able to help reset insulin sensitivity and other metabolic phenomena.

Fewer and fewer people don’t believe in the government’s advice but our children’s lunches have to follow those guidelines. There are some extreme cases where the child’s lunch from home is vilified and not allowed.

Seems to me that you guys are not clear on what is meant by “healthy”.
What the FDA means by healthy is a healthy balance sheet for the pharmaceutical corporations. They are simply not interested in any other form of health.

Seems to me that you guys are not clear on what is meant by “healthy”.
What the FDA means by healthy is a healthy balance sheet for the pharmaceutical corporations. They are simply not interested in any other form of health.

I found it interesting that the video itself states, “At the urging of food companies and lawmakers, the [FDA] agency plans to update its definition of healthy”…..hm….so tell me…. where is the science? Where is the proof? As you have said, “follow the money’ and you KNOW who is making the decisions that affect the health and lives of the people of this country…..

I wonder how many billions of dollars people have spent on trash “food” because they believed government guidelines, and how many more billions have been required to treat the resulting medical conditions. More billions, no doubt, for lost work time and still more billions for diet programs that were doomed to failure from the outset. Of course, no dollar amount could ever be placed on the sheer misery experienced by people who trusted these guidelines. I speak as one who has experienced quite a bit of that misery myself. Thanks again, Tom, for getting me started on the road to better health!

That’s why I want government out of the diet and health business. Look at the wasted taxpayer dollars: first they take our money to subsidize wheat and corn, thus making grain products and high fructose corn syrup ridiculously cheap. Then they take our money to create anti-obesity programs that don’t work … because they’re based on flawed CICO thinking and the belief that more grains = better health. Then they take our money to treat the health problems caused by following their guidelines.

If this situation doesn’t change, there’s no way we can afford the looming health-care bills. Doesn’t matter if it’s private insurance, Medicare, single-payer national system, whatever. We can’t suck enough money out of the population to pay for medical treatments for a nation full of people with metabolic syndrome.

I found it interesting that the video itself states, “At the urging of food companies and lawmakers, the [FDA] agency plans to update its definition of healthy”…..hm….so tell me…. where is the science? Where is the proof? As you have said, “follow the money’ and you KNOW who is making the decisions that affect the health and lives of the people of this country…..

I wonder how many billions of dollars people have spent on trash “food” because they believed government guidelines, and how many more billions have been required to treat the resulting medical conditions. More billions, no doubt, for lost work time and still more billions for diet programs that were doomed to failure from the outset. Of course, no dollar amount could ever be placed on the sheer misery experienced by people who trusted these guidelines. I speak as one who has experienced quite a bit of that misery myself. Thanks again, Tom, for getting me started on the road to better health!

That’s why I want government out of the diet and health business. Look at the wasted taxpayer dollars: first they take our money to subsidize wheat and corn, thus making grain products and high fructose corn syrup ridiculously cheap. Then they take our money to create anti-obesity programs that don’t work … because they’re based on flawed CICO thinking and the belief that more grains = better health. Then they take our money to treat the health problems caused by following their guidelines.

If this situation doesn’t change, there’s no way we can afford the looming health-care bills. Doesn’t matter if it’s private insurance, Medicare, single-payer national system, whatever. We can’t suck enough money out of the population to pay for medical treatments for a nation full of people with metabolic syndrome.

Well, here’s how it works: if the FDA says an avocado is bad and you eat one, it will kill you. But if the FDA changes its guidelines and announces that avocados are healthy, you can eat them with no bad results.

Well, here’s how it works: if the FDA says an avocado is bad and you eat one, it will kill you. But if the FDA changes its guidelines and announces that avocados are healthy, you can eat them with no bad results.

Several showed up. You won’t see them until I approve them. Otherwise the comments section would be full of bogus comments linking to great deals for Viagra, athletic shoes, Gucci purses, and many others.

I remember an advertisement from years ago for a “genuine faux pearl necklace.” Considering the price, they were depending on people not knowing the meaning of “faux.” Which, come to think of it, is what the government does too. If we’re confused enough, they can get away with anything.

I’m doomed! Tonight’s dinner was a burger patty with salad and half an avocado. I ate the other half avocado with last night’s burger patty. The odd thing is, I feel really good, and I would feel absolutely rotten if I’d eaten Frosted Flakes. Guess I’m just weird that way.

Well, Mother always said “It hurts to be beautiful.” But I thought that was only because she was pulling my hair while twisting it into long ringlets. (That was something you just had to put up with if you were born in ’42.)